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From the cemetery's main
entrance, use the map to drive to the northeast corner of the park, where
you'll find the Court of Freedom, with its large mosaic, and a 13-foot
high statue of George Washington. Walk in the main doors of the FreedomMausoleum here, turn right, then stop at the first hallway on your
left: the Sanctuary of Heritage.

Here, clustered on the same right wall of this one
small corridor, you'll
find the tombs of six superstars: Alan Ladd
(#203582), Jeanette MacDonald
(#203642), Nat King Cole (#203692),
George Burns and his wife Gracie
Allen (#203602), and Clara Bow
(#203484), all located on the same right (south) wall of the same corridor.
To be sure you've found the right corridor, look for the bust
of Alan Ladd to the left of his
tomb.

Directly
below Nat is the crypt of singer / actress Jeanette MacDonald(1903-1965), who starred alongside Nelson
Eddyin
a series of popular musical comedies such as "Rose Marie"
and "Naughty Marietta." (Click
here to read about Nelson's grave). But she also had hit movies
that didn't include Nelson, such as "San Francisco,"
where she starred opposite Clark Gable.

Just
to the left of Nat and Jeanette (and two over from Alan Ladd)
is the crypt of beloved comic George Burns(1896-1996) and the other half of the popular
"Burns & Allen" comedy team, his wife Gracie Allen
(1902-1964). The two starred together on
the radio and in movies until Gracie's death.

George had a great deal of success on his own later
in life, as the nation's most popular senior citizen, starring in films
such as "Oh, God" and living to the ripe old age
of 100. But he never remarried.

As always, George gave Gracie "top billing."

Their epitaph reads "Together Again."

Back
out in the main hallway, head back past the main door to the first corridor
on the left (west) past the entrance (the Columbarium of Victory.)
On the back wall of this room, a few spaces to the right of the central
statue, is the small niche containing the ashes of Dorothy Dandridge
(1923-1965).
Her life was the subject of a 1999 TV movie, "Dorothy Dandridge,"
starring Halle Berry in the title role.

Dorothy
was the first African-American actress to be nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Actress (for the 1954 production of
"Carmen Jones.")

A singer as well as an actress, she also starred as
'Bess' in "Porgy & Bess." Alas, her Hollywood
potential was restricted by the prejudiced times; she went bankrupt and
died of a barbiturate overdose at age 41.

One
isLarry Fine (1902-1975),
one of of the original Three Stooges
(Larry, Moe & Curly) - he was the balding one with the frazzled
hair around the edges. Between 1930 and 1966, Larry appeared in over 200
movies and "The Three Stooges" television show, virtually
always as a Stooge, somewhat playing the straight man to Moe and Curly's
more outrageous behavior.

You can find Larry's crypt (#22247) downstairs, in
the Sanctuary of Liberation, a corridor on the west side of the
lower mausoleum, at its far south end. His crypt is about four in from
the hallway, on the bottom row.

The
other two are members of the Marx Brothers.
Not Groucho (he's at Eden) or Harpo (he was cremated *),
but Chico Marx (1887-1961),the brother who played the piano and liked to fake a thick Italian
accent, is here. You'll also find the lesser-known Gummo Marx(1893-1977).

You
can find Chico's crypt (#22018) in
the Sanctuary of Worship,the next corridor south of Larry
Fine's. His crypt is on the right side of that corridor (as you face it
the corridor from the hallway), 2 spaces in from the hallway, but rather
high up (about six spaces up, just above the crypt of one Virginia M. Heidanus.)

Gummo's crypt
(#21057) is directly across the hallway on the east side, in the Sanctuary
of Brotherhood; the crypt is three spaces in from the hallway and three
up from the bottom.

* It is rumored that Harpo's ashes were scattered at the seventh hole of the Rancho Mirage golf course, near Palm Springs.

A
lesser-known star today, but a major personality in his own time, is also
buried down here: silent screen star Francis X. Bushman(1883-1966).His crypt (#21408), can be found in the Sanctuary
of Gratitude, the last corridor on the north side of the building,
on
the west side of the hall. His crypt is three spaces in from the hall and
four spaces up from the bottom. Bushman was one of the silver screen's
first matinee idols. He began his work in the silents, churning out almost
100 films before 1927 (including the original "Ben-Hur")
and another 25 after sound arrived.

It's now time to visit some of the outdoor
graves (where Walt Disney, Spencer Tracy & Jimmy Stewart
are buried) and continue our virtual
tour of Forest Lawn Glendale.